Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-05T03:52:15Z

On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sat, 05 Jul 2008, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> >> Won't that break multiple kernel installs on any binary packaging
> >> system that cares about file collisions? Multiple kernel rpms
> >> providing the same /lib/firmware files would break things wouldn't
> >> they ?
> >
> > We will probably need per-kernel directories, exactly like what is done for
> > modules. And since there are (now) both kernel-version-specific, and
> > non-kernel-version-specific firmware, this means the firmware loader should
> > look first on the version-specific directory (say, /lib/firmware/$(uname
> > -r)/), then if not found, on the general directory (/lib/firmware).
>
> How about /lib/modules/`uname -r`/firmware

I am fine with it, it certainly has a few advantages.

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Henrique Holschuh